Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-30
NATIONAL MATTERS.
An Expected Decrease in the Treasury Sur.
plus for July and August-An Inter-Stets
Decentralization Mails.

an Expected Decrease in the Treasury Sur.
plus for July and August-An Inter-Stees
Order-Mexican Mails
WASHINGTON, June 22.-The following |
statement in reference to the national |
finances is authorized by the Treasury De-
partment: ''The estimated receipts and ex-
pencitures of the Government in the months
of July and August show that there Will be
q decrease rather than an increase OF the
treasury surplus during that time. After
providing fer the S19, 165. OOe of expired
bonds due July the surplus will be 3d.
geo, 600. The pension appropriation OF S1Ss-
O75 COO for the fiscal year ending June l,
1887, has already been exhausted, conse-
quently the Pension Bureau reports that
when The new appropriation becomes avail
able, on July 1, it will draw So, 900, zoe for
the payment of pensions This will leave
the treasury q surplus OF S2o,OVU1OUu.
The Government assets in national oank
repositories July will be about equal to
thai sum, so that, Substantially, the whole
Government balance will thus be available
for the current business of the country on
july l, and will probably continue thus
arailable for soIue months, for the amount
OF Government deposits in national banks
constantly increases, and in August an
other S12, COO 600 Ejll be drawn for pensions.
Accruing interest and ordinary expenses
will require So, Gee, 600 in July and August,
and the receipts for those months will be
about s65, 600, 0OS, leaving on September
| surplus less than on July of $50, 900, 600.
Other considerations should be noted as
| affecting the influence of the treasury upon
| the finances Of the country One is that of
| the above estimated receipts more than
| ST., 600, GOO will come, not from taxation, but
| from the profit on the coinage of the silver
| dollar. Another is that during July and
| August the Government will eXpend at
| least 81, 100000 in the purchase of silver
| h,,ll inh &c No in0lnda6 in q
| above estimated expenditures. Another is
that S77, 000, 600 of the surplus is got by call
! ing cash that amount of trade dollars re-
deemed and melted into bars. Last year
| the treasury surplus in June, July and Au-
! gust ranged from $4,000 600 to So, 600 600,
| against $1S,000,O00 to $29, 100000 this year.
| When a comparison is made upon the same
basis with the deposits in National Bank
repositories it is much larger. During the
| fiscal year ending June 80, 1887, the circu-
lating medium of the country will have
! been increased through treasury operations
and otherwise about $40, 600, 900, of which
S55, 00e, 600 is in notes and coins Of SO and
under"
| AN INTERSTATE ORDER.
! WASHINGTON, June 22.-The Interstate
| Commerce Commission has promulgated
! the following: ''Whereas, section of the
act to regulate commerce authorizes the
| Commission to direct when JOINT tariffs
ures of publicity to be given the same, 1t is
ordered as follows: Joint tariffs, rate,
| fares, or charges, established by two on
| more common carriers for transportation
| of passengers or freight passing over con-
| tinuous lines or routes, copies of which are
| required by the sixth section of the act to
| regulate commerce, shall be made public
as lar as the same relate to business be-
| tween points connected by the lines. Any
| single common carrier is required by the
| first paragraph of said section to make
| public the schedules of its rates, fares and
charges. Such joint tariffs shall be so pub
| lshed, by plainly printing the same IN
Large type of at least the of ordinary
plea. copies of which shall be kept for use
of the public in such places and in such
| form as they can be conveniently inspected
mt every depot or station upon the line of
carriers uniting in such joint tariff, where
any business is transacted in competition
with the business of the carrier whose
schedules are required by law 10 be made
public as aforesaid"
THE MEXICAN MAIL.
i w AsInNGToN, June 22.-Postmaster-G en-
| eral Villas yesterday made public the
terms of the new postal treaty between the
United States and Mexico. The treaty
provides that the mails of each country
shall be open to all matter now mailable
under the law of either country, and mat
ter is to be subject to rates and regulations
NOW governing in the country in which it
originates There is to be exchange OF
accounts or revenues between the two
countries, and each country is to bear the
expense of conveying its mails to the
other; each retaining the revenues from
mail matter originating within its bounda
rieS3 or If, by agreement, the conveyance
la both directions in overland exchanges
other than railway, is provided by one
of them, the expense of transportation
shall be shared between them in proportion
| to the distance Travelled over the territory